WWOOF: World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. My parents are WWOOF Hosts in the States, and have had many young (and old) people from all over the world come and spend time volunteering on their farm in exchange for room and board. It is a very neat program, benefiting all who are involved and bringing people together through a common love for the earth.
Nick and were interested in WWOOFing at some point on our trip, but were not actively seeking out opportunities when we stumbled across Habiba Village Organic Farm- one of the only WWOOF Hosts in all of Egypt!
We had crossed from Jordan to Israel to Egypt all in one day and were disappointed to discover upon arrival in Taba, the border town in Egypt that:
1. Our supposed 3 month visa for Egypt we had purchased when we passed through in January was infact only a 1 month visa and had expired
2. We could only purchase a Sinai Peninsula visa from that particular crossing
3. All of the busses on Sinai were (and still are) on strike so public transport was not going to happen
And all of these things (and many more along the way) brought us to Nuweiba, Egypt a small coastal town on Sinai that is essentially a ghost town at present, with a few functioning beach bungalow style camps still up and running.
We met a nice french lady who told us of the Habiba Village project, and after checking it out decided to spend a few days there. There were two other WWOOFers present: Toby, and Aussie, and Toivo, who was from Finland.
We spend 6 hours per day volunteerin on the farm, an enclosed area in the desert where tomatoes, eggplant, fruit trees, olive trees, herbs, and more are all struggling to survive. The rest of the day was then ours to snorkel, relax on the beach, walk, etc.
We had all of our meals provided and while breakfast and dinner could be a bit lacking, lunch was usually delicious.
Here are some photos of the farm compound- a 15 min walk from the beach/lodging:
It was really cool spending time on an international farm, but man am I ever ready to get back to that midwest soil!!!
Nick and were interested in WWOOFing at some point on our trip, but were not actively seeking out opportunities when we stumbled across Habiba Village Organic Farm- one of the only WWOOF Hosts in all of Egypt!
We had crossed from Jordan to Israel to Egypt all in one day and were disappointed to discover upon arrival in Taba, the border town in Egypt that:
1. Our supposed 3 month visa for Egypt we had purchased when we passed through in January was infact only a 1 month visa and had expired
2. We could only purchase a Sinai Peninsula visa from that particular crossing
3. All of the busses on Sinai were (and still are) on strike so public transport was not going to happen
And all of these things (and many more along the way) brought us to Nuweiba, Egypt a small coastal town on Sinai that is essentially a ghost town at present, with a few functioning beach bungalow style camps still up and running.
We met a nice french lady who told us of the Habiba Village project, and after checking it out decided to spend a few days there. There were two other WWOOFers present: Toby, and Aussie, and Toivo, who was from Finland.
We spend 6 hours per day volunteerin on the farm, an enclosed area in the desert where tomatoes, eggplant, fruit trees, olive trees, herbs, and more are all struggling to survive. The rest of the day was then ours to snorkel, relax on the beach, walk, etc.
We had all of our meals provided and while breakfast and dinner could be a bit lacking, lunch was usually delicious.
Here are some photos of the farm compound- a 15 min walk from the beach/lodging:
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| Notice wall around garden- outside is just sandy rocky desert! |
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| View from our free room! |
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| Nick and Cho, the cutest pup EVER!! |
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| The well, with eggplant in background |
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